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In this Issue

Inside the Art Market

A special section. Our reporters go behind the scenes at the salerooms and galleries to find out who’s buying what–in fields ranging from contemporary and modern art to photography and antiquities–and why. Also, Ann Landi examines the inexact science of setting a value on art; Paul Jeromack reports on the rise and fall and rise of 19th-century Salon painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau, whose maudlin compositions are today considered great bargains; and Paul Gardner cracks the secret codes of auction signals

The China Syndrome

Departments

Art Talk Damien Hirst’s new restaurant, Mariah Carey mixes architectural site and sounds in her new video, and more

National News Protests from preservationists and the public stop the sale of a beloved Maxfield Parrish mural in Philadelphia. A settlement is reached in dispute over a Degas painting claimed by Holocaust victims. Plus Art Market, In Brief, and more

International News Sweden is divided over a show of photos of male teens–and by the fact that neo-Nazis tore it down. Michelangelo’s Florentine Pietà goes digital. In Brief and more

City Focus: Cologne The cheerfully idiosyncratic city on the Rhine is redefining its identity with renovation, innovation, and provocation. German correspondent David Galloway reports